Review the 2022 ICT Sponsor Demo Day

OpenACR is a new machine-readable Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) format. Designed to make it easier for everyone to build, maintain, validate and share meaningful accessibility reporting in the procurement processes. Built for federal agencies and other ICT product consumers who want to monitor and improve accessibility in their enterprise.

Session presenters will describe the concept and framework for the OpenACR, including its underlying data schema and command-line validation tool. Presenters will also demonstrate the OpenACR Editor tool. This accessible JavaScript editor (built on the WAI’s ATAG Report Tool) allows an author to build an OpenACR file from scratch, or import one that has already been written. The editor also allows users to save their OpenACR in both a YAML & HTML format, making it easy to share both the underlying ACR data and a human-readable report of ACR information.

Note: GSA is not a sponsor of this event. The ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium organizers are providing this demo day slot in support of ongoing collaborative initiatives by members of the accessibility testing field. The recording is no longer available from GSA.

OpenACR Editor on GitHub

Mike Gifford, CivicActions

SUS: A System Unusable for Twenty Percent of the Population. Did you know that the System Usability Scale (SUS) creates biases in your research, affecting one in five people? That’s right! People with disabilities, especially those who use assistive technology, are not considered by most of the questions in the SUS. When the SUS was invented, the author encouraged people to change it to suit different needs. In this talk, we will discuss how Fable adapted the SUS to work for assistive technology users. Drawing from over five thousand hours of research and testing involving assistive technology users, we created the Accessible Usability Scale (AUS). This presentation will include trends in AUS responses since it was released in December of 2020.

Go to Fable's website

Samuel Proulx & Elana Chapman, Fable

In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how to scale web accessibility testing and reporting. We will use WAVE (a free single-page checker) and the pope tech platform in our demonstration. Pope Tech provides web accessibility scanning and reporting to hundreds of organizations who use our testing platform and our Canvas LMS Integration.

Go to popetech's website.

Mark Pope, popetech

With the ARC Platform, organizations have the tools and resources to manage, collaborate, and implement their accessibility initiatives.

At its core, the ARC Platform provides accessibility monitoring which runs a suite of accessibility rules on your organization’s websites/web applications and essential user flows.

Automated testing, when combined with ARC’s expansive KnowledgeBase, empowers your developers and designers to address issues one-by-one and grow their understanding of accessibility over time.

ARC provides milestones, adding clarity to an organization's accessibility journey.

Go to TPGi's website.

Aaron Farber, TPGi

We’re building a new non-profit member organization to develop Industry Consensus Standards for Accessibility Test Reporting.

Our mission is to reform the way accessibility test results are generated and reported, and foster the adoption of new standards by vendors and product review providers.

For digital content (websites, mobile applications, electronic documents, etc.), as well as consumer technology products (household appliances, digital thermostats, home entertainment systems, etc.) we will strive to generate:
(a) industry consensus standards for reporting the results of accessibility tests that laypersons can easily comprehend.
(b) industry consensus standard methods for validating that given test processes can reliably generate the standardized test reports in (a).

We have produced a document to Introduce the concept of standardized accesibility test reporting, and invite participation in the new member organization.

Learn more about the initiative.

Dr. Chris M. Law

The A360 HUB is your personalized customer portal and is provided to authorized users within your organization and partner organizations. In the A360 HUB, your related staff will have access to the project results including recommended fixes for issues, have the ability to view Knowledge Base articles, and training videos, communicate with our Help Desk team and more. The A360 HUB is used by both sighted & blind auditing staff and is a completely accessible, issue-tracking solution.

Go to Accessible360's website

Michele Landis, Co-Founder & CRO, Accessible360

Accessible Design and Digital Inclusion Skills are more important than ever! AccessU 2022 is THE place to learn and connect: May 9th-12th (the week prior to ICT).

Whatever your role is in digital accessibility, wherever you are on your journey, there is simply no better place to learn and connect to the global community than the annual John Slatin AccessU conference.

Join Knowbility's Executive Director, Sharron Rush, for this 'fireside chat' and Q&A.

Go to Knowbility's website. | A mini-guide for attending both AccessU and ICT

Sharron Rush, Knowbility

AccessibilityOz’s OzART is an innovative accessibility reporting tool that makes it easy to comprehensively report on and maximize your site’s accessibility.

OzART simplifies the task of making your site accessible according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG2.1) because it searches and reports defects in categories, e.g. images, page titles, content and headings. This makes it easy for your team to work through fixing the defects, logically and systematically.

OzART goes beyond mere compliance requirements, setting you apart from your competition and minimizing legal risk.

OzART is for managers wishing to track progress without being buried in technical details, developers needing to quickly identify accessibility opportunities, and testers who generate accessibility audits, supporting the efforts of managers, developers and content creators. OzART is an automated tool designed to improve the workflow of each of these roles while catching all the errors along the way.

Go to AccessibilityOz's website | OzART

Gian Wild, AccessibilityOz